Memphis
For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall
gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant [places]
for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns [shall
be] in their tabernacles....
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mem'-fis:
1. Name:
The ancient capital of Egypt, 12 miles South of the modern
Cairo. This Greek and Roman form of the name was derived
from the Coptic form Menfi (now Arabic Menf), the
abbreviation of the Egyptian name Men-nofer, "the good
haven." This name was applied to the pyramid of Pepy I, in
the cemetery above the city; some have thought...
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Also called NOPH
-A celebrated city of Egypt
Ho 9:6
-Prophecies concerning
Isa 19:13; Jer 2:16; 46:14,19; Eze 30:16...
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(haven, of the good), a city of ancient Egypt, situated on
that western bank of the Nile, about nine miles south of
Cairo and five from the great pyramids and the sphinx. It is
mentioned by Isa 40:14,19 and Ezekiel, Eze 30:13,16 under
the name of Noph. Though some regard Thebes as the more
ancient city, the monuments of Memphis are of higher
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only in Hos. 9:6, Hebrew Moph. In Isa. 19:13; Jer. 2:16;
46:14,
19; Ezek. 30:13, 16, it is mentioned under the name
Noph. It was
the capital of Lower, i.e., of Northern Egypt. From
certain
remains found half buried in the sand, the site of
this ancient
city has been discovered near the modern village of
Minyet
Rahinch, or Mitraheny, about...
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Capital of Lower Egypt, on the W. or left bank of the Nile.
Hebrew "Nowph" (Isaiah 19:13). "Mowph," or Memphis (Hosea
9:6). Second only to Thebes in all Egypt; the residence of
the kings until the Ptolemies moved to Alexandria. Plutarch
makes it mean "the port of good things," the sepulchre of
Osiris, the necropolis of Egypt, "the haven of the...
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